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Gray whales are suffering catastrophic population decline in the Pacific Ocean

David Brown 16 Jul 2026
A view of Ngor Bay in Dakar, Senegal. Image by Jeff Attaway via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

What will Africa’s story on ocean governance be? Interview with David Willima

Victoria Schneider 13 Jul 2026
Community members collect plastic waste during a beach cleanup organized by COMRED on Kenya’s coast. Image courtesy of COMRED.

‘The only possible transition is a just transition’: Interview with WEF’s Clemence Schmid

Jackson Ambole Okata 7 Jul 2026
A leafy sea dragon among seagrass in South Australia. Image by Jayne Jenkins / Ocean Image Bank

Australia’s seagrass meadows under pressure as climate change turns up the heat

Sean Mowbray 3 Jul 2026

A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off

Associated Press 1 Jul 2026
A Florida panther.

Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult

Gloria Dickie 1 Jul 2026
Mangroves along Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast. Image by Malavika Vyawahare/Mongabay.

Our Ocean Conference in Kenya ends with $6.4 billion in pledges, review of past promises

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jun 2026

Not all coral reefs are doomed as a result of climate change, study suggests

Elodie Toto 25 Jun 2026
A mangrove-rich coastal landscape in Tanzania. Protecting and restoring mangrove ecosystems is a cornerstone of community-led marine conservation efforts across East Africa. Photo courtesy of Mwambao Coastal Community Network.

Africa’s community-led marine organizations on which 30×30 depends

David Akana 17 Jun 2026

Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration’s dismantling of a $386M ocean observatory project

Associated Press 15 Jun 2026
A dead dusky morwong (Dactylophora nigricans) lies on a bed of seaweed at the water’s edge.

A year on, Australia’s biggest harmful algal bloom continues to wreak havoc

Nick Rodway 8 Jun 2026
Giant soft coral in South Korea

‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2026

Scientists warn of climate blind spot as U.S. dismantles ocean sensors

Naina Rao 4 Jun 2026

A baby boom for North Atlantic right whales, but extinction still a threat

Bobby Bascomb 6 May 2026
Sunset over the tropical Pacific Ocean off Hawai‘i. The new study points to the climactic interconnectivity of the world’s warming oceans, where humid heat waves often originate, and faraway terrestrial landscapes, where humid heat waves can threaten public health.

Tropics take the brunt as hotter oceans drive large-scale humid heat waves: Study

Adam Litchkofski 10 Apr 2026

The rate of global warming is accelerating, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 6 Mar 2026
Study co-author Tom Hart changes the batteries on a remote camera. Penguin Watch’s camera network includes more than 77 cameras that monitor penguin colonies year-round, providing a wealth of data.

Penguins are breeding much earlier in a warming Antarctic, study finds

Ruth Kamnitzer 25 Feb 2026
Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini), photographed in Yonaguni, Japan.

Top ocean news stories of 2025 (commentary)

Alfredo Giron, Ana Spalding, Erin Skoczylas, Vanessa Constant 24 Dec 2025

Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2025
Washed-up North Sea cod in Haroldswick, Scotland. Image courtesy of Mike Pennington (CC BY-SA 2.0).

UK fish stocks in trouble as catch limits exceed scientific advice: Report

Shanna Hanbury 29 Oct 2025
A harp seal on ice.

Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Oct 2025

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach

Liz Kimbrough 14 Oct 2025

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report

Bobby Bascomb 14 Oct 2025
North Pacific Ocean temperature anomalies on September 28, 2025. Positive values denotes areas warmer than average; negative values means cooler than average. Image via NOAA Coral Reef Watch.

Northeast Pacific endures fourth-largest marine heat wave on record

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Sep 2025
Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

Scientists weigh giant sea curtain to shield ‘Doomsday Glacier’ from melting

Gloria Dickie 24 Sep 2025

Panama upwelling fails in 2025, threatening marine ecosystems

Bobby Bascomb 19 Sep 2025
Small-scale fishers unloading buckets of fish from their boats in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

24 years on, part one of WTO treaty curbing fisheries subsidies takes effect

Elizabeth Fitt 17 Sep 2025
Two walruses atop a small piece of floating Arctic sea ice.

No new record low for Arctic sea ice loss in 2025

Gloria Dickie 16 Sep 2025

Indonesia’s giant Java seawall plan sparks criticism & calls for alternatives

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2025
Island in the South Pacific, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Top court delivers a ‘huge’ climate win for island nations

Mike DiGirolamo 9 Sep 2025
A man walks past kelp in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Shores, San Diego.

Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away

David Helvarg 9 Sep 2025
A school of barracuda in the Solomon Islands, a small island developing state in the Pacific Ocean.

Climate change is driving fish stocks from countries’ waters to the high seas: Study

Edward Carver 29 Aug 2025

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